The first private dance house was on 6 May 1972, at Könyvklub at Liszt Ferenc Square in Budapest, where Ferenc Novák and his followers showed the simple form of széki dance (Szék, Sic is a Romanian village). The event was organized by dancers of the Bihari Dance Ensemble, Jolán Foltin, Lajos Lelkes, Antal Stoller. The dancers of the Bartók, the Vadrózsák, the Vasas Dance Ensembles also took part in it; the music was provided by Béla Halmos, Ferenc Sebő, Péter Éri. The main supporter of the event was György Martin who helped to Béla Halmos and Ferenc Sebő too. Martin showed them the Collection of Szék by László Lajtha and other records what later became the music collection of dance house movement. Halmos and Sebő learnt by Sándor Tímár in 1971 how to play music for dancers.
"Music and dance like in Szék” was read on the invitation for the first private dance house in 1972. Opposite the entrance, there was a photo by Péter Korniss who also spent a lot of time in Szék and documented the traditional Transylvanian peasant culture. At the door, Lajos Lelkes and Antal Stoller welcomed the guest like in Szék. Originally the organizers wanted to organize the traditional dance house of Szék, but later there were ethnographical, sociological lectures at the dance houses.
During the year 1972, there were three more private dance houses at the Könyvklub.
The end of the 1972 Béla Halmos, Ferenc Sebő, Mihály Sipos travelled to Szék because they wanted to learn about the dance house of Szék. Here Béla Halmos heard the band of István Ádám "Icsán” and started to learn folk songs by them. At Budapest when Béla Halmos organized the dance houses, the idol for him was the dance house of Szék where that was a natural event every time.
During the years the dance houses at Budapest became more and more popular where the youth had possibilities to learn and hear about that information and interest which were not allowed at school or universities. The HVDSZ, VDSZ, VASAS, ÉPÍTŐK were the main Ensembles at the dance houses. From 1973 the members of the Bartók Dance Ensembles taught folk dances at Fővárosi Művelődési Ház. New folk music bands were founded like the Muzsikás and the dance house movement became popular at all around Hungary.
